[texworks] German translation updates

[Thomas Floeren]

Steffen Wolfrum <> scribbled on Tuesday, July 07, 2009 11:42 AM:

> The only "Tile" that I found on my mac is translated to German as
> "Gekachelt" in "System preferences > Desktop":
> Here the chosen background image is scaled in such way that it makes a
> pattern covering the entire screen.
> Is this what TexWorks "Tile" would mean, too?
> 


In this case "gekachelt" is correct because the desktop background image is
really used as tile, ne next to the other, to fill up the whole space (in the
sense of a mosaic).

But what TeXworks does when I hit "Tile" is rather the same thing that the Mac
does in Exposé when you choose "All windows" or "Program windows": it arranges
(distributes) the actually open windows over the screen. That's why I would
call this "verteilen".

Greetings
Thomas


> 
> Anyway:
> 
> Reading the pros and cons of so many different suggestions
> and coming back to real work I felt quite happy that the menu items
> (ie the item's words) in the various applications that I used were
> most often the same.
> [In English just think of  "File > Open", "Edit > Copy", "Edit >
> Paste", "File > Close"]
> 
> If "Window > Stack" and "Window > Tile" are normally translated to
> "Fenster > Stapeln" and "Fenster > Kacheln" then it would be best to
> use this, just because it is common practice, kind of standard.
> 
> Only I can't tell if it is really a standard, for I couldn't find
> these phrases translated in any app that I use.
> 
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Steffen
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Am 07.07.2009 um 10:19 schrieb Thomas Floeren:
> 
>> 
>> justmytwowcents:
>> 
>> "Stapeln" would be the best choice because
>> - the verb is quite common and thus understandable in this context.
>> - "Übereinander" is not as precise than "stapeln"; "stapeln" (in
>> this context) is a special arrangement of "übereinander" which
>> describes exactly this specific windows behaviour: "übereinander"
>> with a slight offset so that every window is still accessible.
>> 
>> "Kacheln" is - IMO - not a common word in this context, and can
>> perfectly be replaced with "verteilen".
>> 
>> So, my proposal: Fenster ... "Stapeln" and "Verteilen"
>> 
>> Greetings
>> Thomas
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: texworks-bounces at tug.org [mailto:texworks-bounces at tug.org] On
>> Behalf Of Peter Wüsten
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 9:27 AM
>> To: Discuss the TeXworks front end.
>> Subject: Re: [texworks] German translation updates
>> 
>> Steffen Wolfrum wrote
>>> And  the verb "Kacheln" is quite special too ... (only used in real
>>> life when you construct your own house  :-)
>>> 
>> ... and yet I think the meaning is still intuitive, as the verb
>> implies "arranging several of the same all over the place in a
>> perfectly well-ordered fashion". IMHO it is quite to the point, and
>> I can't think of any alternative (I don't believe there is one for
>> 'to tile', either). 
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> So, I am not a linguist but Peter's proposal sounds very clever to
>>> me! 
>>> 
>> <blush> ;-)
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> 
>> Peter